Improvement in lamp-burners



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Patented Oct. 2, 1866.

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SAML. WV. WILGOX, OF MENDON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-B URNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,524, dated October 2, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. WILoox, of Mendon, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Kerosene-Burners; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingspecification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, marked Figures 1 and 2, they being vertical and transverse sections of a burner provided with my invention, such sections being taken in planes at right angles with each other.

The purpose of my invention is to enable a person to readily extinguish the flame of the wick of the burner, and this without the necessity of depressing the wick or blowing air against its flame.

In the drawings, a is the wick-tube, b the body, and c the conic air deflector of the burner, they being made and arranged or appled with respect to one another in the usual manner.. A is the internal or auxiliary air deflector' or conductor, which, as usually made, has a form approximating to that of thet'rustum of a pyramid. It fits on the wick-tube and to its two edges, and serves to lead currents of air directly into the flame at its base.

In carrying out my invention, I arrange within the said auxiliary deflector A, and on opposite sides of the wick-tube, two gates or metallic plates, 0 e, which I so rest on or apply to a lever, B, to embrace the wick-tube, as to enable the said plates or gates to be raised by the lever when in movement. The said lever extends through the side of the body of the burner in manner as represented, and has its fulcrum therein; By depressing the external arm of the lever, when the wick is inflamed, the inner arm of such lever will be elevated,

-and will force the gates up to and above the wick, and insulate the flame from the currents of air which may be flowing up through the deflector A. At the same time the flame will be extinguished. On the lever being moved in the reverse direction, the gates will drop within the deflector.

I do not claim the application to a cylindrical wick-tube of a burner, of a tube to e11- compass it and slide on it up to and above a SAMUEL W. WVILGOX.

Vitnesses R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

